Censorious Government Warns Journalists, Threatens Consequences For Reporting ‘Distorted Facts’ Of Deadly Disaster

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An arm of the Chinese government warned foreign media outlets Saturday against covering a Nov. 26 Hong Kong high-rise fire which left at least 159 dead in a manner painting Beijing in a negative light.

The Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong (OSNS), the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) national security presence in the region, gathered journalists from foreign media outlets, including The New York Times, to issue a formal warning against reporting what it called “distorted facts” about the deadly blaze in ways critical of the government’s response, The New York Times reported. The fire burned through the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex, after which three individuals were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

“Some foreign media have recently reported on Hong Kong ignoring the facts, spreading false information, distorting and smearing the government’s disaster relief and aftermath work, attacking and interfering with the Legislative Council election, provoking social division and opposition,” OSNS said in a statement reported by Reuters.

“Do not say you have not been warned,” OSNS continued, before emphasizing journalists would face repercussions if the government found them in violation of the Chinese government’s 2020 Hong Kong national security law, The New York Times reported.

Days before the Beijing-controlled office summoned foreign media outlets, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) — widely considered to be allied with the CCP — issued a similar message about what it dubbed anti-China “malicious attacks” in the wake of the fire. (Read more from “Censorious Government Warns Journalists, Threatens Consequences For Reporting ‘Distorted Facts’ Of Deadly Disaster” HERE)

Elon Musk Calls for the European Union to Be ‘Abolished’ and a Return of National Sovereignty

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Tesla chief Elon Musk has called for the abolition of the European Union as a political entity and a return of national sovereignty to the continent in the wake of Brussels announcing a $140 million fine against his X social media platform for supposedly violating the bloc’s censorship law.

“The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people,” Musk wrote on his X account on Saturday morning.

It came after the unelected European Commission imposed a €120 million ($140 million) fine on X on Friday for allegedly breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA), the overarching censorship law crafted by Eurocrats in Brussels which seeks to prohibit the proliferation of content deemed to be hateful, disinformation, or harmful to “civic discourse” in Europe.

The bloc has long been at odds with X since Elon Musk took over the social media platform in 2022, even going to so far as to publicly warn Musk about conducting a live interview with then candidate Donald Trump ahead of last year’s presidential election.

The decision to fine X looks to further sour relations between Washington and Brussels, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio writing: “The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. (Read more from “Elon Musk Calls for the European Union to Be ‘Abolished’ and a Return of National Sovereignty” HERE)

Another Afghan National Was Busted for Allegedly Plotting a Mass Shooting

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Democrats swore up and down that the Biden administration “carefully vetted” all the Afghan nationals we brought to America after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Despite that, an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal drove from the West Coast to D.C., where he shot two National Guardsmen, killing one of them, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom, and leaving the other, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, critically wounded.

In the days following that shooting, more Afghan nationals were arrested for various threats, including one in Texas who threatened to bomb Fort Worth and one in Virginia who was helping ISIS-K.

Now a third Afghan national named Luqmaan Khan was arrested in Delaware, this time for allegedly plotting a mass shooting.

“He allegedly told cops that becoming a martyr was ‘one of the greatest things you can do,'” Morello wrote.

Kahn came to the U.S. as a “youth,” according to The New York Post.

(Read more from “Another Afghan National Was Busted for Allegedly Plotting a Mass Shooting” HERE)

‘Treated As A Slave’: Horrifying Details Emerge About Massive Rape Scandal

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Men, mostly of Muslim Pakistani origin, have been systematically grooming and raping British girls for decades.

Now, Open Justice UK claims to have acquired the first portion of the “redacted grooming gang sentencing remarks … dating back to 2016.” The organization published the remarks for all to see Dec. 2. Open Justice UK published a second portion of sentencing remarks Thursday. The organization is dedicated to “pushing for public access to court records,” a process they’ve documented on social media.

Let’s begin in the town of Rotherham, where brothers Arshid, Basharat, and Bannaras Hussain were sentenced for their crimes in 2016. The brothers were aided by their uncle, Qurban Ali, and co-conspirators Karen MacGregor and Shelley Davies.

Arshid and Basharat Hussain were found guilty of “multiple rapes and indecent assaults,” according to the BBC. Bannaras Hussain pled guilty to 10 charges, including rape and indecent assault. Ali was found guilty of conspiracy to rape. MacGregor and Davies “were convicted of conspiracy to procure prostitutes and false imprisonment.” The gang’s total offenses totaled 55, according to The Guardian.

The Hussain brothers began their campaign of sexual exploitation in 1987, reportedly stopping around 2003. (Read more from “‘Treated As A Slave’: Horrifying Details Emerge About Massive Rape Scandal” HERE)

Pelosi and Greene Retirements Thrust $38M-a-Year Pension Perk for Congress Into Spotlight

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The vast majority of the record number of congressional lawmakers not seeking re-election next year, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), will collect annual pension benefits that cost taxpayers some $38 million per year to payout.

The timing of Greene’s abrupt retirement, as well of the six-figure sum Pelosi will receive after serving nearly 40 years in Congress, have brought attention to the little-known perk for ex-pols and renewed calls to end the program.

“I can’t read her mind, but it certainly seems as if it was timed to make sure she got vested,” Demian Brady, the vice president of research for the National Taxpayer Union Foundation, said of the Georgia Republican’s last day in the House.

Under federal law, members of Congress qualify for annual pension benefits only after completing five full years of service.

Brady was one of the first to point out that Greene, who began serving on Jan. 3, 2021, and will leave office on Jan. 5, 2026, picked a departure date that gives her just enough time to meet the eligibility threshold. (Read more from “Pelosi and Greene Retirements Thrust $38M-a-Year Pension Perk for Congress Into Spotlight” HERE)

Plane Bound for New Jersey Plunges Thousands of Feet After Possible Strike by Cosmic Rays from Other Galaxy, Investigators Say

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A New Jersey-bound airplane that suddenly plunged thousands of feet in the air — sending 15 people to the hospital in October — was likely struck by cosmic rays from a star that exploded in another galaxy, according to space experts.

The JetBlue Airbus A320 flight was hit by a stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova blast that traveled millions of years, according to Clive Dyer, a space and radiation expert from the University of Surrey who spoke to space.com

“Cosmic rays can interact with modern microelectronics and change the state of a circuit,” Dyer told the outlet. “They can cause a simple bit flip, like a zero to one or one to zero. They can mess up information and make things go wrong. But they can cause hardware failures too, when they induce a current in an electronic device and burn it out.”

The flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30 . . . Pilots regained control and made an emergency landing in Tampa, Florida, but roughly 20 passengers suffered serious injuries, including bloody head wounds.

Airbus officials blamed the glitch this week on “intense solar radiation” from the sun interfering with the 20-year-old plane’s navigation computer. (Read more from “Plane Bound for New Jersey Plunges Thousands of Feet After Possible Strike by Cosmic Rays from Other Galaxy, Investigators Say” HERE)

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VIDEO: Suspect in January 2021 U.S. Capitol Pipe Bomb Case Arrested

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Editor’s Note:

Last month, a conservative outlet identified a former U.S. Capitol Police officer as a potential match for the January 6 pipe bomber, citing a “gait analysis” as its primary evidence. The FBI later dismissed the claim, and the officer definitively disproved the allegation by providing video footage showing she was at home playing with her puppies at the time the explosive devices were planted

By Breitbart. A man accused of planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol the day before the January 6, 2021, protests has been arrested in Virginia.

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested the suspect early Thursday, Fox News reported, citing law enforcement sources. Fox said the suspect is Brian Cole, according to “two sources.”

The pipe bombs were placed near the Republican and Democrat National Committees’ headquarters over 16 hours before authorities located them.

A bomb squad detonated the pipe bomb found at the Republican National Committee (RNC), Breitbart News reported January 6, 2021. A suspicious package was also found at the Democrat National Committee’s offices.

“The report comes as supporters of President Trump stormed the United States Capitol to protest the Congressional electoral college vote to certify the 2020 presidential election results for President-elect Joe Biden,” the outlet added at the time. (Read more from “VIDEO: Suspect in January 2021 U.S. Capitol Pipe Bomb Case Arrested” HERE)

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Nearly Five Years Later, FBI Makes Arrest In DC Pipe Bomb Case

By The Federalist. The FBI made an arrest early Thursday morning in the five-year-old Washington, D.C., pipe bomb case. Authorities arrested Brian J. Cole Jr. and accused him of planting two live bombs on Jan. 5, 2021 — one near in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the other near the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

According to the criminal complaint, video surveillance captured an individual, now alleged to be Cole, wearing a hoodie and distinctive shoes while placing bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters. The bombs were discovered Jan. 6, 2021, before they exploded.

The Department of Justice is charging Cole, 30, with transportation of an explosive device with intent to kill, injure, or intimidate an individual, or to damage property and malicious destruction by means of fire and explosive materials.

Cole, a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, lives in a house “with his mother and other family members,” according to the complaint. He works at a bail bond business.

He allegedly bought materials for the bombs, including pipes, endcaps, and steel wool, at Home Depot, along with a kitchen timer at Walmart. Investigators tracked down every bomb component he purchased, according to the complaint. (Read more from “Nearly Five Years Later, FBI Makes Arrest In DC Pipe Bomb Case” HERE)

Officials Arrest Pastor Who Refuses to Apologize for Beliefs on LGBT Agenda

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. . .In fact, if you have the wrong beliefs, and refuse government demands that you apologize for them, you’ll be in a lot of trouble. Cuffed and arrested, in fact.

This is known because of the recent arrest of Pastor Derek Reimer, who refused to comply with a court order that he apologize for his own personal opinions on drag queens and the LGBT lifestyle choices people have made.

He earlier was “convicted” of harassment for objecting to a drag queen event that focused on grooming children. . .

According to a Not the Bee report, apparently jailing people who don’t adopt the government’s religious beliefs is “what they do in Calgary.”

“Yup, the court ordered Pastor Derek Reimer to apologize for a 2023 incident where he ‘intimidated’ a librarian by protesting an event at the library where men in lingerie were reading to children. Keep in mind, he had already been on a year-long house arrest which was set to end next month when he refused to apologize. However, this breached his sentence conditions.” (Read more from “Officials Arrest Pastor Who Refuses to Apologize for Beliefs on LGBT Agenda” HERE)

New Law Lets Texans Sue Out-Of-State Dealers For Trafficking Abortion Drugs

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A new law designed to combat Democrat laws shielding abortion drug traffickers who take advantage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s radically expanded mail-order mifepristone allowances went into effect on Thursday in Texas.

Lone Star legislators passed House Bill 7 in September to create a punishment mechanism for illegal interstate abortion pill transactions and the dangerous and deadly consequences they hold for women and their unborn children.

Under the new statute, private citizens are permitted to sue out-of-state mifepristone prescribers, manufacturers, and distributors, such as pharmacies, for “an amount of not less than $100,000” for each violation of the state’s ban on abortion pills. Enforcement is modeled after Texas’ successful 2021 heartbeat bill, which virtually eliminated abortion in the state by granting anyone outside of the government to bring a civil action against anyone who performs or aids and abets ending a life in the womb.

Abortion activists have already dubbed the law a “dangerous” “attack” fueled by “fearmongering and intimidation.” Media such as the Houston Chronicle and The Guardian joined the dogpile with articles framing the law as a “bounty hunter” scheme.

“Abortion pill underground” coordinators, such as the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), have also committed in print and online to continue their drug smuggling schemes regardless of potential consequences. (Read more from “New Law Lets Texans Sue Out-Of-State Dealers For Trafficking Abortion Drugs” HERE)

‘Major Breakthrough’ Blood Test Can Find Dementia Risk Before Symptoms Even Start

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. . .About 1 in 9 US seniors has Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, which slowly impairs memory, thinking skills and the ability to perform even basic tasks.

There is no single, easy test to diagnose Alzheimer’s, but a new review of 18 scientific studies confirms that a simple blood test can detect early signs of the brain disorder before cognitive symptoms appear.

The protein p-tau217 has become a reliable Alzheimer’s biomarker because its concentration in the blood is strongly linked to the presence of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain, two hallmarks of Alzheimer’s.

The research out this week in JAMA Neurology supports the use of p-tau217 blood tests as a “minimally invasive tool” for early identification of Alzheimer’s, “particularly in settings where timely intervention with disease-modifying therapies may offer the greatest benefit in slowing or preventing disease progression.”

Dr. Liron Sinvani, director of the Geriatric Hospitalist Service at Northwell Health and director of research for hospital medicine, called the finding “a major breakthrough.”

“Just a simple blood test to see if this protein, this p-tau217, is present can indicate that someone is at a very high risk of having dementia right before symptoms even start,” said Sinvani, who was not involved in the new research. (Read more from “‘Major Breakthrough’ Blood Test Can Find Dementia Risk Before Symptoms Even Start” HERE)